Sunday, 24 April 2011

Redstart

Sunday morning found us headed to Seaford head, to see if anything was moving on the sea, but it turned out to be poor with only 1 Arctic skua, 1 Bronxie and a few sandwich tern passing through, the Kittiwakes on the cliff face were good to see.

We then moved on to Ashdown forest were we enjoyed watching at least 6 Redstarts which gave very good views, there was also a few Redpolls about and 6 stonechats and lot's of Whitethroats around, a Woodlark was picked out by dad sitting in a dead tree then there was two singing and displaying which was very nice to see, on the way back to the car some guy told us that there was a tree pipit in that tree over there displaying at times, we got good views of sitting down and displaying whilst it was fanning its tail out, also dad had a house martin go over.

At Weir wood reservoir We scanned the north banks for Wood sandpipers but only saw one Little ringed plover and then dad picked out a Wood sandpiper feeding along the edge to far for a photo but we got good views through the scope.